Ordering of Sentences: Test-14

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Ordering of Sentences: Test-14

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Question 1

S1 : As a first step we have made the tribals celebrate the Itu Kula festival on the same day. S6 : Village-wise environmental status reports were prepared to help people in assessing the remaining natural resources such as drinking water, extent of grazing land, and number of fruit-bearing trees, bird, animals etc. P: For the first time in the history of this region, during this festival, an Adivasa darbar was conducted. Q: Tribes from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha were also invited to participate in this darbar. R: We could achieve emotional integrity amongst tribals which resulted in this success. S: For centuries they were celebrating it on different days and in different ways. The correct sequence should be

A

SRPQ

B

PRSQ

C

QSPR

D

RSQP

Question 1 Explanation:

The correct sequence is SRPQ.
S1 talks about the Itu Kula festival. S talks about its celebration since centuries. R talks about emotional integrity among tribals. P talks about Adivasa darbar conducted during this festival. Q talks about tribes from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha participating in this darbar.

Question 2

S1: He went to his friends, but none of them was ready to help him now. S6 : Now the Youngman understood that he had made a mistake. P: He had to look after the farmer's pigs. Q: And when he was hungry he ate the food which was given to the pigs. R: He went away from the city and wandered round the countryside looking for food to eat. S: In the end he went to the house of a farmer and became his servant. The correct sequence should be

A

PSRQ

B

RSPQ

C

SQPR

D

QPSR

Question 2 Explanation:

The correct sequence is RSPQ.
R tells the scenario when his friends didn’t helped him. S tells the end result of his journey for food. P tells the scenario what he had to do to get some food. Q tells the intensity of his hunger that he ate the food given to pigs after which he realizes his mistake as given in S6.

Question 3

S1 : Our villages are not now as serene and peaceful as they had been twenty five years ago. S6 : This often vitiates the traditional tranquility of the rural way of living. P: The village people now seldom live under the overall command of any single powerful headman. Q: Local political leaders mostly control and command them. R: Party politics had entered into the peaceful villages forcing the villagers to live polarized political lives. S: One dangerous consequence of this is that they are often dragged into clashes even with their own relations of different political belief. The correct sequence should be

A

PRSQ

B

RPQS

C

QPRS

D

PSRQ

Question 3 Explanation:

The correct sequence is RPQS.
R tells the reason why our villages are not at peace as they are twenty five years ago. P tells that people seldom are under control of one powerful headman. Q tells who these headmen are. S tells the consequences of this scenario.

Question 4

S1: In 1668 an important discovery was made. S6 : That was the beginning of the end of the theory of spontaneous generation of higher plants and animals. P: He put some rotting meat and fish in open jars and watched them. Q: When he covered the jars with muslin, he found that flies came and laid their eggs on the muslin, but not maggots developed on the meat. R: In time, he noticed that flies came and laid their eggs in the meat and the maggots hatched from the eggs. S: An Italian physician named Redi decided to test the idea that worms were generated spontaneously in rotting meat. The correct sequence should be

A

PQSR

B

SPRQ

C

SRPQ

D

RPQS

Question 4 Explanation:

The correct sequence is SPRQ.
S1 starts with the idea of some invention. S talks about that invention. P reveals the methods involved in the invention. R continues this further and Q finally depicts the result of the experiment.

Question 5

S1: Newton was perhaps the greatest scientist that ever lived. S6 : Newton went home and worked quietly by himself for about 18 months. P: But when he was only 22, a terrible plague epidemic swept over England. Q: He was the son of a Lincolnshire farmer, and was born in 1642. R: Therefore the universities-were closed. S: He went to Cambridge to study mathematics when he was 19. The correct sequence should be

A

SPRQ

B

QPSR

C

SQPR

D

QSPR

Question 5 Explanation:

The correct sequence is QSPR
The paragraph starts with a general statement about Newton. Q talks more about him. S talks further about his education. P tells about an incident that happened when Newton was 22. R tells the outcome of that incident, and hence R will follow P.

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